I have had the joy of traveling to Boston this week to visit one of our retail accounts. Everyone has asked, did you get frisked?
Ummm, no. Nor did I see anyone else getting the "treatment". But you know what, they can do whatever they need to do to me to ensure my safety to get home to my family. This isn't exactly something to get so sensitive about, it's not like the FFA thought up, "hey, how much fun would it be to make people uncomfortable by feeling around private places". Seriously people? Get over it.
Another slight annoyance, my flight was delayed a few minutes after we had already been seated on the plane. The started to the left engine wasn't working so it needed to be replaced. Ok, that sounds sensible to me. It will take 45 min. Not bad. I can handle that, yes it stinks, but manageable. The gasps and gruntles I heard around me were unreal. (Now if you had a connection to catch, totally understandable). But about half the plane pulled their luggage off to go find alternate routes home.
1) you're going to have to fly stand-by (good luck out of LGA)
2) you're gong to have another connecting flight (6:30 flight out of LGA to BNA is about the last one)
Both of the above are going to cause you to be later than if you just wait it out. HHhhhhmmm, was it really worth all that effort of carrying your luggage around for an hour stressing about it?
I'm not saying I haven't ever been frustrated with an airline before, lord knows I have. I do try when it's out of their control to give them the benefit of the doubt because my life and safety are coming first in their hands.
